Bought a "rock" on Saturday, a Native American rock. ID Help Please!

[bigcaddy64]

So, like the title says, I was making my way through an estate sale on Saturday and was picking up tons of great stuff. As I made my way into the room with all of the cast iron cookware, I noticed this rock on the floor. I had some idea of what it might be so I grabbed it and went to check out

The guy looked in my bag and said "what do you have". I showed him and he said a pan, a wrench, steel wool and a rock. After a receiving an odd look from the guy, he handed me a ticket for $4.00. I paid up and I went on home.

I had some idea this might be Native American, considering what the homeowners collected, but I've never actually purchased anything of the sort. That kind of stuff is quite rare in Southern California.

Can anybody tell me if this is actually real or was this made in a garage with a stone cutting wheel.

It's the shape of a large baked potato, weighs approx 5 pounds, and measures 5 1/2" long. It's oblong but is about 3" in diameter

 

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[Rodbuster209]

I have a similar one a little smaller and was told it a weight for a fishing net. Good luck!

 

[joee5]

Yeah I bought a rock once too. Back in the days where having a pet rock was the fad

 

[Tallone]

That might be the head of a Native American war club. It looks similar to one that recently sold on eBay for around $85: Antique Native American Indian Large Grooved Stone Head War Club Tomahawk | eBay

 

[Baltimore]

you might want to post it in the what is it forum, or the native american artifacts forum, I'm sure they could help. Nice finds!

 

[Paleo_joe]

Looks like a 4 groove club head. To see if it is authentic look at the grooves under a scope or loupe for machining marks, very different than a groove made by hand hundreds or thousands of years ago. If it were smaller, a couple of inches in size with a line sized groove, then sinker or net weight.

 

[diggummup]

Nice grooved maul!

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Moved to Am. Indian Artifact Forum.....

Looks like a nice maul.

 

[captain flintlock]

It's a thunder blade! The top part of the thunder axe from "Mountain Monsters"!! [emoji38][emoji38][emoji12] you might wanna call Buck and Huckleberry for backup!! " Now let's go get that son-of-a b&@$"!! ( hopefully someone knows what I'm referring too!).

 

[Guster]

Lol huckleberry

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[FreeForAll]

Gotta love such finds! Good score on your part!

About 30 yrs ago, I was in a secondhand shop in Fernie, BC. Someone had turned in their rock collection which was basically garbage except for one notable piece. I grabbed it and went to the till to see what I could get it for. The boy behind the till said "how about 25 cents?" I quickly paid him and proceeded out the front door. To my elation, I had just scored a beautiful fossilized theropod bone about the size and shape of my fist broken off at about the "wrist!" You could even see the cell structure in the interior/marrow part of he bone.

To date, that is still one of my best scores!

 

[diggummup]

It's a thunder blade! The top part of the thunder axe from "Mountain Monsters"!! [emoji38][emoji38][emoji12] you might wanna call Buck and Huckleberry for backup!! " Now let's go get that son-of-a b&@$"!! ( hopefully someone knows what I'm referring too!).

Dumbest program out there, so dumb that you have to laugh at those fools. Coincidentally, I did sit through that particular episode a couple days ago.

 

[Guster]

Funny thing was that they were invited to attend a bigfoot hunters convention in ohio in a state park.

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[captain flintlock]

Dumbest program out there, so dumb that you have to laugh at those fools. Coincidentally, I did sit through that particular episode a couple days ago.

Oh definitely but it is entertaining though! I can imagine the group of Sasquatch sitting around saying " Hey, what should we call our club?? I know! How about the Thunder Brothers!!" [emoji38][emoji38][emoji38]

 

[captain flintlock]

Funny thing was that they were invited to attend a bigfoot hunters convention in ohio in a state park.

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Just out of curiosity, I wonder which park. I grew up in Ohio.

 

[Guster]

Salt fork

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[Guster]

They have had one there for the past several years.

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